Turner's ingenious process shot three successive frames through red, green, and blue filters, and then projected them on top of each other to create a full-color image. The short documentary below reveals how these 110-year old rolls of film were restored, transferred to standard 35mm film, and blended digitally. The simple home movies are just brief shots of Turner's children and animals, a parrot and a goldfish, but the colors are beautiful. You can see that the overlap isn't perfect, especially in parts of the frame with a lot of movement, because of the different color frames were shot in sequence. This creates the rainbow you see when the little boy brandishes the sunflower, for example.

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg joined The Atlantic in 2011 to launch its video channel and, in 2013, create its in-house video production department. She leads the development and production of original documentaries, interviews, and other video content for The Atlantic. Previously, she worked as a producer at Al Gore’s Current TV and as a content strategist and documentary producer in San Francisco. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University.